Help Me? Web Developers Unite

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I am the newest addition to our web development team. I have been assigned the task of figuring out how to make a link from AWS that will result in a file downloading. EX. Click the link and a photo will automatically download. We are using Wagtail and Django, please help.

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If you are working with Wagtail, I recommend you the tutorial https://learnwagtail.com/wagtail-for-beginners/. You will see how to create good links in Django/Wagtail. Also you can see from the associated github repo [0] that they create links but you will not really understand well how this stuff work unless you go trough the whole tutorial.

[0]: https://github.com/CodingForEverybody/rocketman/blob/master/...

The <a> tag allows you to set a "download" attribute which will prompt the user to save the URL/file rather than navigating to it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

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